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Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis
OBJECTIVES: Public health institutions have alerted consumers about advertising for dietary supplements with false claims of preventing or treating COVID-19. We quantitatively and qualitatively examined newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after the COVID-19 spread. DESIGN: Co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34815281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050898 |
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author | Okuhara, Tsuyoshi Yokota, Rie Shirabe, Ritsuko Iye, Reina Okada, Hiroko Kiuchi, Takahiro Chiba, Tsuyoshi Akamatsu, Rie |
author_facet | Okuhara, Tsuyoshi Yokota, Rie Shirabe, Ritsuko Iye, Reina Okada, Hiroko Kiuchi, Takahiro Chiba, Tsuyoshi Akamatsu, Rie |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Public health institutions have alerted consumers about advertising for dietary supplements with false claims of preventing or treating COVID-19. We quantitatively and qualitatively examined newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after the COVID-19 spread. DESIGN: Content analysis. PARTICIPANTS: We analysed advertisements for dietary supplements in two major Japanese newspapers in February–July 2019 and February–July 2020. Our analysis covered 2167 advertisements. RESULTS: The number of advertisements for dietary supplements that claimed to be effective in infection prevention (p=0.009) and improving joint (p=0.002) and digestive functions (p=0.002) significantly increased after the spread of COVID-19 compared with before. Dietary supplements that claimed to be effective in preventing infection were advertised in combination with recommendations for gargling and handwashing. Such terms as ‘defence’ and ‘prevent’ were used to promote the preventive effect. CONCLUSIONS: False and misleading claims in advertising for dietary supplements may result in consumer harm, such as overdosing and failure to take preventive behaviour. While the pandemic continues, there will be an increasing need for disseminating accessible information about the appropriate use of dietary supplements, consumer education and warnings to manufacturers. |
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spelling | pubmed-86112332021-11-24 Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis Okuhara, Tsuyoshi Yokota, Rie Shirabe, Ritsuko Iye, Reina Okada, Hiroko Kiuchi, Takahiro Chiba, Tsuyoshi Akamatsu, Rie BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: Public health institutions have alerted consumers about advertising for dietary supplements with false claims of preventing or treating COVID-19. We quantitatively and qualitatively examined newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after the COVID-19 spread. DESIGN: Content analysis. PARTICIPANTS: We analysed advertisements for dietary supplements in two major Japanese newspapers in February–July 2019 and February–July 2020. Our analysis covered 2167 advertisements. RESULTS: The number of advertisements for dietary supplements that claimed to be effective in infection prevention (p=0.009) and improving joint (p=0.002) and digestive functions (p=0.002) significantly increased after the spread of COVID-19 compared with before. Dietary supplements that claimed to be effective in preventing infection were advertised in combination with recommendations for gargling and handwashing. Such terms as ‘defence’ and ‘prevent’ were used to promote the preventive effect. CONCLUSIONS: False and misleading claims in advertising for dietary supplements may result in consumer harm, such as overdosing and failure to take preventive behaviour. While the pandemic continues, there will be an increasing need for disseminating accessible information about the appropriate use of dietary supplements, consumer education and warnings to manufacturers. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8611233/ /pubmed/34815281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050898 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Public Health Okuhara, Tsuyoshi Yokota, Rie Shirabe, Ritsuko Iye, Reina Okada, Hiroko Kiuchi, Takahiro Chiba, Tsuyoshi Akamatsu, Rie Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title | Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title_full | Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title_fullStr | Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title_short | Japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after COVID-19: a content analysis |
title_sort | japanese newspaper advertisements for dietary supplements before and after covid-19: a content analysis |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8611233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34815281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050898 |
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